Discworld (PC)

There are some old adventure games out there that are still worth playing that maybe aren’t quite as well known as the Monkey Island series. I’ve decided to try to review as many of them as humanly possible (well at least it keeps me off the streets). Reviewing older games can of course be a bit tricky as far as objectivity goes, but I’ll do my best. Overview The first on my list is the original Discworld game. You play as the incompetent wizard Rincewind, on a mission to save the city from a dragon… which turns into a mission to save the dragon from… you’ll find out. First Impressions Starting out in Unseen University, ...

Discworld is a game which proves that even with the best source material in the world you can still foul things up rather horribly. The game marks the first time that the Terry Pratchett series of novels made their way onto the computer screens(aside from a text adventure called The Color Of Magic from yesteryear) and as such is something which more than a few of us were falling over ourselves to buy when it hit the shelves almost ten(is it really that long?) years ago. Almost universally we were disappointed. Discworld is an adventure game - no other kind of game could have served as a medium by which to put across the Pratchett humour and as you would expect ...